Senior Director & HOD
Bone Marrow Transplant
+91-11-30403040Bone Marrow Transplant Centre at BLK super speciality hospital is one of the largest bone marrow transplant centres in India. We offer specialist services to patients across a wider catchment area. The Centre aims to deliver advanced patient care, supported by a team of expert surgeons, haematologists, doctors and nurses for providing advanced Bone marrow transplant services with excellent patient outcomes.
Autologous means cells acquired from the patient’s body, who is the donor and the receiver simultaneously. Autologous transplant is usually done on the patient using his/her own bone marrow or stem cells.
The transplant process can be done either by using bone marrow harvesting or peripheral blood stem cells:
The next step is to process the harvested Bone marrow/ stem cells.
There are various serious and often fatal illnesses which require bone marrow transplant as a cure. Such illnesses include:
Since it’s a crucial treatment process, a patient has to undergo various processes before the transplant to ensure high safety and better outcomes.
Step 1: Pre-transplant Process: A doctor might prescribe Pre-transplant tests and procedures, where a series of tests and procedures are performed to ensure the patient’s general health and the status of the medical condition. This process of evaluation may take several days.
Step 2: Conditioning Process: After the completion of the medical evaluation, a patient has to undergo the conditioning process. In this process either chemotherapy or radiation therapy or a combination of both is given to the patient to:
Step 3: Autologous Transplant: A patient now has to go through the cytotoxic treatment, which involves the transplantation of the harvested and processed cells back into the patient's body, through a central venous catheter. These cells then travel through the bloodstream into the places inside the bones, where they tend to create new bone marrow.
Step 4: Engraftment: In this process, the patient is under the close monitoring for the sign of the growth of new stem cells along with supportive care.
Step 5: Post Engraftment monitoring and continuation of immunosuppression
Some of the precautions a patient must follow before and after the transplantation process include:
Before the Transplantation:
After the Transplantation:
Generally, a patient receives high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy before a transplant, which come with complications such as:
Other complications due to transplant include:
The success rate of autologous bone marrow transplant is very high as it is the safest transplantation with very less complications involved.
If you think you are facing similar conditions, or have suffered from them in the past, please contact the BLK Hospital team to schedule an appointment at : +91-11-30403040